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Wingspan

Name: Wingspan
Brand: Kritiku

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Published: 2019
Reach: Widely known
Players: 1–5
Play time: 40–70 min
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Animals
Card Game
Educational
Environmental

How it plays

Build habitats of birds that generate resources and score points. On your turn, play a bird or activate a habitat to gain food, lay eggs, draw cards, and trigger bird abilities. After four rounds, total bird, egg, tucked-card, cached-food, bonus-card, and end-of-round goal points; the highest score wins.

Main mechanics

Action programming
Dice rolling
Hand management
Drafting
Set collection

Action programming: You commit to moves in advance and watch them play out.
Dice rolling: Dice create swing and force you to adapt.
Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.

Full publisher description

Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features 180 birds illustrated by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez. You are bird enthusiasts researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth: Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds. description from the publisher From the 7th printing on, the base game box includes Wingspan: Swift-Start Promo Pack .

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